| CONTINUOUS ACCESS PORT TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
The patented Continuous Access Port [CAP] technology platform[1] consists of movable ports that are able to move back and forth across the protective barrier surface giving a person total access to the interior of the enclosure.
MOBILE PORTS in PHYSICAL BARRIER
The Continuous Assess Port is an innovative mechanism that gives a person total freedom of access within a containment enclosure by being able to move their arm position back and forth or from one end of the enclosure to the other. The CAP has zipper sliders on each side of a mold-injected port. The CAP and zipper slider combination allows the port to slide back and forth along a zipper track that is integrated into the polymer barrier. Thus when a person places their arm through the port, they have the freedom of moving their arms as if the barrier film was not there.
The market problem being addresses is to correct the imbalance between access to the interior of an enclosure and isolation of the interior of the enclosure to the surrounding environment. A fume hood, a containment enclosure, with the sash up give full accessibility to the interior of the fume hood but provides poor containment of toxic and obnoxious fume hood contamination. On the other extreme, one has very poor and limited access to the interior of a glove box but has high level of isolation of the enclosure contents.
The Continuous Access Port [CAP] solves this dilemma by offering total access to the interior of an enclosure (i.e. fume hood) with a high level of containment (i.e. glove box) to keep enclosure contaminants from escaping into the surrounding environment where it can do harm to personnel and the environment.
[1]The United States patent office issued patent #7,789,820 titled “Apparatus and Method for Providing Continuous Access to an Isolation Space while Maintaining Isolation” on September 7, 2010. Divisional patents have been filed to broaden the fundamental patent claims.
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